Very much agreed. That is what is completely amazing to me... when you consciously put the view into perspective the scale becomes awe inspiring.
I never cease to be humbled whenever I catch a glimpse of how insignificant we really are. In turn I am also equally inspired by the idea that one of the smaller things in the universe, namely 'us', is also capable of beginning to comprehend it.
I believe if this new computational engine comes online tonight the first thing it's going to define is a much better understanding of the term 'slashdotted'.
I am definitely no PHP expert so perhaps I am wrong but it seems that much of what is being changed is backtracking due to bad language decisions from the beginning. Sadly I think PHP developers with legacy code are going to be paying the price for several versions to come.
I had a laptop here, fairly new unit with a dead screen. I ended up putting it in my media center and hooking it up to my LCD TV with a Logitech wireless keyboard. Makes a really nice little surfing machine / Video player / DVD burner / etc. while sitting on my couch and it takes up almost no room in my media cabinet.
"All it takes is a single vulnerability, and you're(sic) security is useless."
You "get" security? Then you would understand that nothing is 100%, nothing.
Everything has a 'single vulnerability' and a lot more than that, they just haven't been found yet. "Security" is relative and it works entirely on stats. How long might it take before someone finds a hole, how long might it take before someone runs enough iterations to "probably" break my password, how long might it take before someone decodes this data... it's all stats... always. And that stat is never "100% secure".
This means 2 things. Will I take a system that is 85% more secure than what I have now? Hell yes. And will I ever stop looking for something more secure? Hell no.
Why wouldn't you just buy the 5 Gig plan at $29.95.. then go over it at $1 per Gig up to a limit of $75... then you would have unlimited for $104.95... not $150?
Funny how Microsoft is so quick to tout big gains in OS adoption but they probably aren't shouting too loudly that it's an OS they have been trying desperately to kill off. "Yay! Selling like hotcakes! Now die... Die... DIE!!!"
I wanted to use the new Chrome 3D but when I downloaded the 3D glasses PDF I realized I don't have a colour printer. Now everything is a dull shade of gray.
Then came some mods... RAM, larger HD, touch screen kit, internal stylus mount, internal bluetooth, adapted external MacBook Air Superdrive. None of which are going to help with the "oh that's manly" factor though.
Best I can suggest is don't buy White or Pink next time:) (though I suppose any colour is doomed to the 'cute' comment on size alone)
Very true. Though it would suck as a TV show if every episode was "Get that off to the lab... ok... now we wait 3 days for results... anyone got a deck of cards?":)
What's incredible to think about is the state of DNA detection these days. This woman has probably merely brushed her hands over millions of cotton swaps and yet obviously a large percentage have carried away a trace of her DNA, and that trace was detectable and could be resequenced. It goes to show how pervasive DNA really is, and how much of our self we sprinkle all over the world continuously.
Bet you'll find her at the end of the packing line completely unaware she's a highly adept and wanted criminal. Or what a brilliant cover if she was guilty;)
Isn't one of the root causes of all this the fact that the exploit was released into the wild? I am highly against it every time I see one of the security "researchers" releasing these holes into the public knowledge base. Had this exploit been kept quiet with Microsoft rolling out an important update that quietly patched it I believe we wouldn't be in this situation.
It's like someone announcing on a street corner that the bricks on the south wall of a bank were found to be very thin, but don't worry... we'll get to adding a little more mortar soon enough. Don't any body make use of this information though as that wouldn't be nice of you.
I understand the concept of motivating the software manufacturers to move on fixing bugs but is this really a worthwhile outcome to achieve this goal? I tend to believe if some "researchers" hadn't just kept their mouths shut and found alternate means to have this dealt with April 1 would still only be "Fool's Day".
I also suspect that some of these "information releases" are often done for ulterior motives as well. Possibly to say "look at what I found" and quite possibly to just watch the target OS/product go down vs. your alternate favourite OS/product.
I am not an expert on Conficker's exact history nor this specific exploit, but I do feel my comments above are generally accurate to many announced exploits in general.
I agree whole heartedly however I must point out you can still put Windows 7 back to the "Classic" Win98 style theme. I can actually make Win7 look very much like classic windows in all respects but one. You get a "Classic" looking version of the new format start menu which doesn't feel or function like "home".
Hate to be the one to break the news but the classic simple start menu is no longer an option in Win7. Several people have come up with 'hacks' to simulate it (since the "new" start menu can still cascade things like Documents, Music, etc. into a popout menu... but you can't revert back to what we call a 'Classic' start menu, even when you use the 'classic' theme. It's gone. Feel free to visit http://www.windows7taskforce.com/ and vote it up if you'd like to see it return but sadly it doesn't seem to have much support.
The example I like to use is my Korn Scripting Shell. I use it maybe once or twice a year to update some scripts here but it installed under the name name KSH Emulator which isn't intuitive for searching.
I don't deny I love the search feature as well.. and I use it a lot. I just wish I had the option back to view all my programs in a cascaded menu when I need to go find that obscure thing I can't locate. I have a couple hundred apps on my development machine and I keep them all nicely filed away. It's not that I can't find them in that little scrolling box, just that it's a pain requiring multiple clicks and scrolling... vs just hovering through the menu. The little scrolling box drives me nuts:) Maybe I'm just getting old.
I appreciate all the work that is going into the new features and attempts to make Win7 easier for the "generic" user, but for me the biggest disappointment is the loss of a simple classic start menu with a pop-out menu style hierarchical view of my applications sorted into groups. Having it all crammed into a small scrolling folder/style box inside the start menu is just going to make working with my preferred setup a pain in the ass. Nice innovation on the search functions, task bar, etc. but eliminating the option to have a simple standby classic interface which is productive for many users was a mistake IMO.
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Very much agreed. That is what is completely amazing to me... when you consciously put the view into perspective the scale becomes awe inspiring.
I never cease to be humbled whenever I catch a glimpse of how insignificant we really are. In turn I am also equally inspired by the idea that one of the smaller things in the universe, namely 'us', is also capable of beginning to comprehend it.
All boobs are perky in 0g.
I believe if this new computational engine comes online tonight the first thing it's going to define is a much better understanding of the term 'slashdotted'.
So pretty much a normal road side assistance response time then.
I am definitely no PHP expert so perhaps I am wrong but it seems that much of what is being changed is backtracking due to bad language decisions from the beginning. Sadly I think PHP developers with legacy code are going to be paying the price for several versions to come.
I had a laptop here, fairly new unit with a dead screen. I ended up putting it in my media center and hooking it up to my LCD TV with a Logitech wireless keyboard. Makes a really nice little surfing machine / Video player / DVD burner / etc. while sitting on my couch and it takes up almost no room in my media cabinet.
"All it takes is a single vulnerability, and you're(sic) security is useless."
You "get" security? Then you would understand that nothing is 100%, nothing.
Everything has a 'single vulnerability' and a lot more than that, they just haven't been found yet. "Security" is relative and it works entirely on stats. How long might it take before someone finds a hole, how long might it take before someone runs enough iterations to "probably" break my password, how long might it take before someone decodes this data... it's all stats... always. And that stat is never "100% secure".
This means 2 things. Will I take a system that is 85% more secure than what I have now? Hell yes. And will I ever stop looking for something more secure? Hell no.
As we mourn the loss of an old friend, tonight the Hamster does not Dance.
Really? They don't already have a bar on campus? That surprises me as I would have sworn they were drunk while making some of their past decisions.
Why wouldn't you just buy the 5 Gig plan at $29.95.. then go over it at $1 per Gig up to a limit of $75... then you would have unlimited for $104.95... not $150?
Funny how Microsoft is so quick to tout big gains in OS adoption but they probably aren't shouting too loudly that it's an OS they have been trying desperately to kill off. "Yay! Selling like hotcakes! Now die... Die... DIE!!!"
That's it, cancel the Star Trek Movie. Now that I know it's all fake it just ruined it for me.
I wanted to use the new Chrome 3D but when I downloaded the 3D glasses PDF I realized I don't have a colour printer. Now everything is a dull shade of gray.
First off I bought a Blue Aspire One ;)
:) (though I suppose any colour is doomed to the 'cute' comment on size alone)
Then came some mods... RAM, larger HD, touch screen kit, internal stylus mount, internal bluetooth, adapted external MacBook Air Superdrive. None of which are going to help with the "oh that's manly" factor though.
Best I can suggest is don't buy White or Pink next time
Very true. Though it would suck as a TV show if every episode was "Get that off to the lab... ok... now we wait 3 days for results... anyone got a deck of cards?" :)
Also probably the only two on television who could have this happen and not be sued off the planet too :) I stand in awe.
What's incredible to think about is the state of DNA detection these days. This woman has probably merely brushed her hands over millions of cotton swaps and yet obviously a large percentage have carried away a trace of her DNA, and that trace was detectable and could be resequenced. It goes to show how pervasive DNA really is, and how much of our self we sprinkle all over the world continuously.
Bet you'll find her at the end of the packing line completely unaware she's a highly adept and wanted criminal. Or what a brilliant cover if she was guilty ;)
Isn't one of the root causes of all this the fact that the exploit was released into the wild? I am highly against it every time I see one of the security "researchers" releasing these holes into the public knowledge base. Had this exploit been kept quiet with Microsoft rolling out an important update that quietly patched it I believe we wouldn't be in this situation.
It's like someone announcing on a street corner that the bricks on the south wall of a bank were found to be very thin, but don't worry... we'll get to adding a little more mortar soon enough. Don't any body make use of this information though as that wouldn't be nice of you.
I understand the concept of motivating the software manufacturers to move on fixing bugs but is this really a worthwhile outcome to achieve this goal? I tend to believe if some "researchers" hadn't just kept their mouths shut and found alternate means to have this dealt with April 1 would still only be "Fool's Day".
I also suspect that some of these "information releases" are often done for ulterior motives as well. Possibly to say "look at what I found" and quite possibly to just watch the target OS/product go down vs. your alternate favourite OS/product.
I am not an expert on Conficker's exact history nor this specific exploit, but I do feel my comments above are generally accurate to many announced exploits in general.
Yep... that's exactly how I sort my applications as well... and what I will miss making full use of in Win7.
I agree whole heartedly however I must point out you can still put Windows 7 back to the "Classic" Win98 style theme. I can actually make Win7 look very much like classic windows in all respects but one. You get a "Classic" looking version of the new format start menu which doesn't feel or function like "home".
Hate to be the one to break the news but the classic simple start menu is no longer an option in Win7. Several people have come up with 'hacks' to simulate it (since the "new" start menu can still cascade things like Documents, Music, etc. into a popout menu... but you can't revert back to what we call a 'Classic' start menu, even when you use the 'classic' theme. It's gone. Feel free to visit http://www.windows7taskforce.com/ and vote it up if you'd like to see it return but sadly it doesn't seem to have much support.
The example I like to use is my Korn Scripting Shell. I use it maybe once or twice a year to update some scripts here but it installed under the name name KSH Emulator which isn't intuitive for searching.
:) Maybe I'm just getting old.
I don't deny I love the search feature as well.. and I use it a lot. I just wish I had the option back to view all my programs in a cascaded menu when I need to go find that obscure thing I can't locate. I have a couple hundred apps on my development machine and I keep them all nicely filed away. It's not that I can't find them in that little scrolling box, just that it's a pain requiring multiple clicks and scrolling... vs just hovering through the menu. The little scrolling box drives me nuts
I appreciate all the work that is going into the new features and attempts to make Win7 easier for the "generic" user, but for me the biggest disappointment is the loss of a simple classic start menu with a pop-out menu style hierarchical view of my applications sorted into groups. Having it all crammed into a small scrolling folder/style box inside the start menu is just going to make working with my preferred setup a pain in the ass. Nice innovation on the search functions, task bar, etc. but eliminating the option to have a simple standby classic interface which is productive for many users was a mistake IMO.
Doesn't have the nVidea Graphics granted... but I did match the Core 2 Duo processor... you need to check the current specs on a Dell Studio Hybrid.
In fact I matched the Apple with the 2.0Ghz processor against the Dell with the 2.1Ghz T8100 so in my comparison the Dell had a faster processor.
Also the Dell has HDMI out and Dig Video out... looks like dual monitors are possible to me. And no HDMI out on the Mini.
For almost $300 less. Fail not.